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The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes

Zachary D. Carter

A page-turning biography of world-changing economist John Maynard Keynes and the big ideas that outlived him. In the spring of 1934, Virginia Woolf sketched an affectionate biographical portrait of her great friend John Maynard Keynes. Writing a full two years before Keynes would revolutionize the economics world with the publication of The General Theory, Woolf nevertheless found herself unable to condense her friend's already-extraordinary life into anything less than twenty-five themes, which she jotted down at the opening of her homage: "Politics. Art. Dancing. Letters. Economics. Youth. The Future. Glands. Genealogies. Atlantis. Mortality. Religion. Cambridge. Eton. The Drama. Society. Truth. Pigs. Sussex. The History of England. America. Optimism. Stammer. Old Books. Hume." Keynes was not only an economist, as he is remembered today, but the preeminent anti-authoritarian thinker of the twentieth century, a man who devoted his life to the belief that art and ideas could conquer war and deprivation.

BiographyBiography · medium confidenceBiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Biography -> BiographyGoogle Books: Biography & Autobiography -> Memoir & AutobiographyGoogle Books: Biography & Autobiography -> BiographyBusiness BiographyMoney, Markets & Economic PolicyBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations

Award History

1 wins · 3 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Hillman Prize for Book Journalism2021Co-winnerOfficial source
National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyMajor2020FinalistSecondary source
Cundill History PrizeMajor2020LonglistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • John Maynard Keynes90%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • Cambridge45%
    • Eton35%
    • Sussex35%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

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    John Maynard Keynes devoted his life to the belief that art and ideas could conquer war and deprivation, and he is portrayed as the preeminent anti-authoritarian thinker of the twentieth century.

    Model confidence 55%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 72%.